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Charlo Greene, is celebrating somewhere in Alaska. After her dramatic exit from her reporting job, Greene explained that she is the owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club, and she chose to quit her job in order to dedicate “all of my energy toward fighting for freedom and fairness.”

Video streaming has already gone mainstream, largely through the success of Netflix. This week brings the debut of Shomi, a Canadian-only service available exclusively to Rogers and Shaw customers.

A nine-year-old boy who ended up in Niue after being allegedly kidnapped by his father in the US leaves the island today to be reunited with his mother. Billy Hanson spent sixty days crossing the Pacific in a 38 foot yacht with his father and pet kitten.

Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley are early winners at the 48th Annual CMA Awards.

Colorado voters have rejected Amendment 67, a proposal to add “unborn human beings” to the state’s criminal code, a measure that some feared could ban abortion. The amendment failed with 1,166,843 “NO” votes and 649,099 “YES” votes, with 92 percent of counties reporting.

Amazon.com Inc. is raising the ante in Canada’s e-commerce battle by offering same-day shipping in Toronto and Vancouver just as retailers head into the crucial holiday shopping season. Toronto, the biggest metropolitan area in Canada, is an obvious pick for the Seattle-based ecommerce giant.

Marijuana legalization won in Alaska, DC, and Oregon, but when can you smoke pot legally?

An emotional Miriam Toews won the $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for “All My Puny Sorrows” Tuesday night, saying she hopes the heart-wrenching and personal novel about a writer dealing with her suicidal sister will help spark dialogue about such issues.

The number of confirmed Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) cases in the Canadian province of Alberta has risen to 111, as of Oct. 31, up from 93 cases two weeks ago.

The Canadian Toy Association released its hot toys for the holiday’s list Tuesday and there is a changing trend to traditional items. A handful of lucky kids in Toronto were able to test over 70 varieties of this year’s big-ticket items.

A Vatican bioethics official has condemned the death by assisted suicide of American Brittany Maynard, a terminally ill 29-year-old who ended her life over the weekend, as an undignified “absurdity”.